mind dump
i am: present and accounted for
listening to: the rumble of distant thunder
drinking: british blend tea
i am sad to have finished ender's shadow by orson scott card yesterday afternoon; sad because it was a great story that i didn't want to end, and doubly sad because i don't have any others in the series, and the book i ordered from a third-party vendor at amazon last week hasn't arrived yet. this is the longest i've ever had to wait for a book from amazon, and i'm starting to get a bit peeved. the book i ordered is elizabeth george's latest - careless in red. after all the fantasy and sci-fi i've been reading recently a proper british mystery is in order, and elizabeth george is my favorite author of that genre. since it hasn't arrived yet, i've started re-reading with no one as witness, the novel that comes chronologically before careless in red. there was another published between them called what came before he shot her, which runs concurrently time-wise with with no one as witness. huh. i'd never really thought about that as a common technique amongst authors, but ender's shadow ran concurrently time-wise with ender's game as well.
tucked inside with no one as witness i found a post office receipt for a package mailed to great lakes, illinois on 4 feb 2005 - when son was in boot camp. at least i know now how long it's been since i last read this book. i don't really remember mailing anything to son when he was in boot camp, unless it was a bag of M&Ms.
on the back of the receipt i found a note to myself. notes to myself are often mysterious when found years later (sometimes they're even mysterious when found days later.) once i decipher my own scrawl, i often have to puzzle out what i meant. this note is no exception. i'm especially curious about what i meant by "the primal om." whatever it was doesn't matter now; i've think it will make a nice name for a fractal, though i haven't come across the appropriate design that merits such a lofty title just yet.
speaking of M&Ms, marahmarie made a very interesting entry recently about what she considers essential software, hardware and utilities, inviting others to reply with their own lists. after making note of a few programs she's running that i'd never heard of and knew i'd find useful, i followed a link to lifehacker and read what the editors and many of their readers had on their lists. i bookmarked quite a few, installed a plug-in or two. well, you know how one thing leads to another. now i'm trying to decide whether or not to download and install either pidgin or digsby. i don't do a lot of IMing, but i hate having to log on to AIM to talk to one person, google chat for another, and MSN for yet another. i think an all-in-one would suit me, but i'm looking for compact, customizable, and full functionality without having to pay to upgrade to premium. any of you guys use pidgin or digsby? (i'm leaning toward digsby - i like what they have to say about security, i like the email option and i like the way the interface looks in the screenshots. my hesitation stems from the newness of the program, and the lack of any information about it online, other than from their own site and wiki.)
on a completely unrelated note: i love the way yog watches me when i'm in the kitchen, her eyes so bright and observant, alert to my every movement. it's as if she's thinking, "i worship you, o thumbed one. have mercy on me, your lowly but loyal minion. please, i beg of you, open the freezer door and grant me one, just one, piece of ice."
wow ... look at all those words. who typed all that rot?
today's reading: i've just started with no one as witness by elizabeth george. should the mailman ever deign to show up today (i really need to make a mailman tag, since i've vented about him before), and should he deliver careless in red (which he may or may not do, regardless if it's in his bag or not,) then i'll read that instead.
listening to: the rumble of distant thunder
drinking: british blend tea
i am sad to have finished ender's shadow by orson scott card yesterday afternoon; sad because it was a great story that i didn't want to end, and doubly sad because i don't have any others in the series, and the book i ordered from a third-party vendor at amazon last week hasn't arrived yet. this is the longest i've ever had to wait for a book from amazon, and i'm starting to get a bit peeved. the book i ordered is elizabeth george's latest - careless in red. after all the fantasy and sci-fi i've been reading recently a proper british mystery is in order, and elizabeth george is my favorite author of that genre. since it hasn't arrived yet, i've started re-reading with no one as witness, the novel that comes chronologically before careless in red. there was another published between them called what came before he shot her, which runs concurrently time-wise with with no one as witness. huh. i'd never really thought about that as a common technique amongst authors, but ender's shadow ran concurrently time-wise with ender's game as well.
tucked inside with no one as witness i found a post office receipt for a package mailed to great lakes, illinois on 4 feb 2005 - when son was in boot camp. at least i know now how long it's been since i last read this book. i don't really remember mailing anything to son when he was in boot camp, unless it was a bag of M&Ms.
on the back of the receipt i found a note to myself. notes to myself are often mysterious when found years later (sometimes they're even mysterious when found days later.) once i decipher my own scrawl, i often have to puzzle out what i meant. this note is no exception. i'm especially curious about what i meant by "the primal om." whatever it was doesn't matter now; i've think it will make a nice name for a fractal, though i haven't come across the appropriate design that merits such a lofty title just yet.
speaking of M&Ms, marahmarie made a very interesting entry recently about what she considers essential software, hardware and utilities, inviting others to reply with their own lists. after making note of a few programs she's running that i'd never heard of and knew i'd find useful, i followed a link to lifehacker and read what the editors and many of their readers had on their lists. i bookmarked quite a few, installed a plug-in or two. well, you know how one thing leads to another. now i'm trying to decide whether or not to download and install either pidgin or digsby. i don't do a lot of IMing, but i hate having to log on to AIM to talk to one person, google chat for another, and MSN for yet another. i think an all-in-one would suit me, but i'm looking for compact, customizable, and full functionality without having to pay to upgrade to premium. any of you guys use pidgin or digsby? (i'm leaning toward digsby - i like what they have to say about security, i like the email option and i like the way the interface looks in the screenshots. my hesitation stems from the newness of the program, and the lack of any information about it online, other than from their own site and wiki.)
on a completely unrelated note: i love the way yog watches me when i'm in the kitchen, her eyes so bright and observant, alert to my every movement. it's as if she's thinking, "i worship you, o thumbed one. have mercy on me, your lowly but loyal minion. please, i beg of you, open the freezer door and grant me one, just one, piece of ice."
wow ... look at all those words. who typed all that rot?
today's reading: i've just started with no one as witness by elizabeth george. should the mailman ever deign to show up today (i really need to make a mailman tag, since i've vented about him before), and should he deliver careless in red (which he may or may not do, regardless if it's in his bag or not,) then i'll read that instead.